MDMD(4) - Giant rob'd Beings (108.9-12), CL49

[Eric Alan Weinstein]

>>Isn't he describing waves?
>>cfa
>
>Dimwittedly, my foot.  The naturalistic reference never occurred to me, and
>more the fool I.  
>But those resonances, now...  They do remain, riding them waves.  No?
>
>Vaska




Maybe Gods, maybe waves, the meanings may both be there for us. It would not
be the first time Pynchon had offered us such a situation.  If I may ride to
wave
 of my use (and maybe abuse) of CL49 from my last post,
I'd like to suggest we may be running up against a either/or, both/and moment.

The precedent I will use is CL49 p123. In a long, complex sentance Pynchon
had Oed wandering the streets of San Fran at night encountering the outcast
and dispossesed who may all be cast out Gods is disguise (--or not). There is a 
facially deformed welder who may be Hefastis, lame son of Juno and Zues 
who was cast out of Mount Olympus; the black woman may be Lilith who 
choses to live as an outcast by refusing to accept the domination of Adam;
the child could be the christ-child who escaped the massacre of the innocents
and endured/s his period of exile; the nightwatchman consuming the products
of western consumerism may be the God shiva, Hindu God of Demons and 
Outcasts, who swallows poison to save the world. The we have an image of 
a Voyeur, which through Wicks I have already indicated might be a Pynchon
self-referance, reappearing here "searching for who knows what specific image"
almost Hitchcock-like, a passerbye in the backround.

      Pynchon seems to include  those who have been excluded as outcasts, 
united for a moment within the  form of a single sentance. Those who are 
defined as outcasts may be gods, and those who are Gods may be outcast.

     Waves, of course, are literally Out-Cast. 


Goodnight, Goodmorning, 

Eric
Eric Alan Weinstein
E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk